Tuesday 28 May 2013

Build It Up

Today the construction has finally finished up on the repairs to the barn that had been ruined in the attack on the Guild Hall a month ago. I was going to hire a proper builder, but my lord husband’s father insisted he could do the work himself, saving us the gold coins. After much argument I had eventually relented, allowing him to work on repairing the barn. 

I started this card by colouring the Birdie Brown image with Prismacolors and cutting him out. I chose some “wood grain” patterned paper for the background and added some screw brads to increase the masculiness by at least +78 points. The sentiment I stamped using the Unity “the Man” set. And that was pretty much it. I didn’t want to clutter it up with too much stuff because I loved the image AND the background paper so much, I thought less was more.

On the inside I stamped another sentiment from the Unity “the Man” set and added some bolts from the Unity “Nuts and Bolts” set.

Those same bolts were stamped onto the envelope making everything match all nice like.

This cute Father’s Day card will find himself in the following challenges:

It turns out he did a fabulous job with the repairs, even making some additions to the barn. Nothing will bring back the hellhounds that were slaughtered in the attack, but I finally have a lead on this group of bandits, and soon vengeance shall be brought down upon their little group.

~ Guild Master Crystal ~

7 comments:

Anita Houston The Artful Maven said...

What a handy card to have around!!! I love the woodgrain background, and the image is so fun! A great manly make! Thank you for taking a walk in the woods with us this week here at Simon Says Stamp & Show!

Julies Crafty Creations said...

Brilliant Fathers Day card, Thanks for joining in with our Fathers Day challenge over at Brown Sugar and good luck
Julie x
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Torico said...

Fabulous card! The wood grain paper and brads are perfect match for him. Thank you for joining this month's challenge at Birdie Brown.

Linda said...

What a wonderful card, I just love your colouring.
Thanks for playing along with us at Brown Sugar, I hope we’ll see you again next week!
Hugs,
Linda (DT) xox
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Unknown said...

What a fun card! Love the image! Thanks for joining my challenge over at Cupcake Craft Challenge this week! Good Luck! Hugs and sunshine

Delphine said...

Fantastic card! Great image and I love your background, just perfect! Thanks for joining us at Cupcake and good luck! Delphine xx

Sandra said...

This is cracking. Love the wood and screw heads.
Thanks for sharing with us at Creative Craft Challenges. x

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